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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Best of the Genea-Blogs - September 14-20, 2008

Several hundred genealogy and family history bloggers write thousands of posts every week about their research, their families, and their interests. I appreciate each one of them and their efforts.

My criteria for "Best of ..." are pretty simple - I pick posts that advance knowledge about genealogy and family history, address current genealogy issues, provide personal family history, are funny or are poignant. I don't list posts destined for the genealogy carnivals, or other meme submissions (but I do include summaries of them), or my own posts.

Here are my picks for great reads from the genealogy blogs for this past week:

* Treasure Hunt! A Challenge for Genea-bloggers by Denise L on The Family Curator blog. Denise challenges genea-bloggers to write about their own treasure hunt - the deadline for posts about the treasure hunt plan is 30 September and for the results of the treasure hunt is 20 October - write an email to Denise, or comment on her blog.

* Choctaw Ancestry by John Newmark on the Transylvanian Dutch blog. John finds fascinating records in the Dawes Commission records on Footnote.com, and tells us about it. It's a wonderful research story, even though it didn't come out the way you might expect.

Thank you to all genealogy bloggers for an interesting and informative week. Did you notice some new blogs on this list? I hope so!

I encourage you to go to the blogs listed above and read their articles, and add their blog to your Favorites, Bloglines, reader, feed or email if you like what you read. Please make a comment to them also - we all appreciate feedback on what we write.

Did I miss a great genealogy blog post? Tell me!

UPDATED: Terry provided the link to her post. The link to her blog works now.

5 comments:

Thanks RANDY for your kind comments and the link. I most appreciate your shout-out.

Thomas MacEntee, administrator GeneaBloggers Group asked for a "how to" on setting up Blogger for audio. That short article is at http://fbbootcamp.blogspot.com/2008/09/adding-audio-file-to-blogger.html

Some of your readers may enjoy adding audio capacity to their blog. But I have to warn you, my second audio recording is "TERRY TALKS and SINGS!" Get ready. It will be posted in about ten days.

Thanks Randy for wanting to add my post, "The Gentle Ferocity of Love" to your list. I am honored, epecially since this post is one that is close to my heart. I apologize that you could not find the link, which is http://www.thenews-messenger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=PluckPersona&U=f684072254a04ece9ce6f1a8f1a96078&plckController=PersonaBlog&plckScript=personaScript&plckElementId=personaDest&plckPersonaPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3af684072254a04ece9ce6f1a8f1a96078Post%3ac618dcf1-161f-4078-bb85-8ec782a72814&sid=sitelife.thenews-messenger.com

You can see from the length of the link and the difficulty of finding me, the problem I am having attracting and keeping readers. Google can no longer optimize my posts because they are buried so deeply inside the News-Messenger's new website. So truly, your mentioning my post, is very much appreciated.

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I am a native San Diegan, a graduate of San Diego State University, a retired aerospace engineer, a genealogist and a family guy.
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